Clergy Women_an Uphill Calling

by Barbara Brown Zikmund, Adair T. Lummis, Patricia Mei Yin Chang

Perhaps the most significant event in twentieth-century American Protestant churches has been the entry of tens of thousands of women into the church's ordained ministry. How are these women's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664256732
• ISBN13: 9780664256739
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Author listing on on-line Amazon ad is wrong

Clergy Women: An Uphill Calling is authored by Barbara Brown Zikmund, Adair T. Lummis, and Patricia M. Y. Chang. A major value of this book is that it provides a baseline of the situation in the early 1990's for predominantly white clergywomen. We look forward to new authors doing their own studies and books on clergywomen across denominations and ethnicities.

Extensive research

An extensive research to come out of Hartford Theological Seminary, which details quite importantly the life of clergy. However, I would argue that much of the comment is equally applicable to male clergy, so the book is not as exciting and as groundbreaking as one would perhaps expect. Similarly, from a feminist perspective, I was somewhat surprised to find a comment in the book which tells us that women clergy are often more able to go where they are needed in small communities because their husbands will have good jobs. Surely this is a step backwards? Otherwise a good read.